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towelie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Keeps your progress if you exit without saving
Supports tabs so you don’t have 5 separate notepad windows open
syntax highlighting for programming languages and markdown format
plugin support
can handle extremely large text files (I’ve opened 50gb text files and used ctrl+f to find terms and it worked fine)
superb tools for manipulating text (e.g., use reg expressions). Super easy to make mass edits.
dark mode support. That should be enough on its own lol

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christov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
+10000 for notepad++, its he swiss army knife of file editing tools. Adding: Plugins: CSV being read as a small dB table you can query is a game changer. Or have a JSON plugin that auto formats and queries as well as opens the JSON in a clickable nested window. Pinned tabs: pin important tabs, I use one as a todo list. Search for text within files in a folder: need to find a specific bit of text in one of dozens/hundreds/thousands/millions of files somewhere? Its lightning fast and works a treat Search and replace with regex: amazing feature, use regex patterns to find complex parts of your files and replace them with something else Bulk operations: remove newline, replace line breaks etc Multi format support: see line breaks from different OSs like Unix and windows and amend them Portable install: you dont have to install it, you can use a portable version

So much more, get it and you won’t look back.

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iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
A few of those features are available on Notepad as well, just FYI.

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- percentSValue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Out if curiosity, which ones? Because I don’t see any of those features and am on W11…
  
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  - donuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    On my W11 work machine I got dark mode, saving unsaved drafts and tabs
    
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- towelie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Is that Windows 11-only thing, or have I been missing a bunch of notepad features?
  
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criticalinvite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
A lot of those are features of notepad.

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- egrets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Specifically: tabs, dark mode, and retention of unsaved documents. They’re apps for very different purposes, but Notepad has had some nice little updates over recent years.
  
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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Your first two points are part of Notepad now too. Everything else you’ve said is true though, including the find and replace function supporting regex. It’s amazingly powerful for editing.

It also supports line numbering, which seems like a small thing but is really helpful.

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Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Ah thanks for the first proper answer. Sounds good, I will give it a try.

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mr_jaaay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Just to point out that on Win11, Notepad also:

Keeps progress without saving

Supports tabs

I use a bunch of text editors / note taking apps regularly (or semi-regularly) and Notepad is one of them (among others also Notepad++, VSC, Obsidian, Geany, Notion…).
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